#fakenews (the real ones and the Truth marked so) ARE the new fog of war. (Re)tweets about military /security issues and... life (mostly from Earth)...
As a Soviet historian who has spent years writing about the extreme, repressive control Soviet Communism exercised over its unfortunate citizens, I find it really hard to bring a similar accusation against the Labour government and Keir Starmer.
But I’m finding it increasingly difficult to avoid that conclusion.
We have no Gulag or death penalty, admittedly, but what Labour and the old Soviet regime do have in common is the arrogant belief that they alone hold the moral high ground and that this entitles them to the total control over all those who do not share their worldview.
And like the Soviets of old their tools of control are the same…
- legislation and co-opted courts and civil service to apply it
- the policing of dissent, by hate crime orders, arrests (@glinner), the long term seizure of electronic appliances (@CF_Farrow) to intimidate even those against whom no charges are finally brought.
- controlling free speech (12,000 arrests annually for social media posts in 2025). George Orwell’s ‘thought crime’ persecution has become a reality under Labour.
- framing dissent (the Unite the Kingdom participants) as racism and far right fascism (Stalin started that in the days when Labour was his captive party, the 1930s, and ‘fascist’ has remained their favoured mantra ever since)
- attacking and weakening the family (because the family is so often a place where small ‘c’ conservative values are transmitted down the generations), including the promotion of trans ideology to confuse children in their understanding of the roles of men and women, mothers and fathers. In their eyes women can have penises and ‘heteronormativity’ must be ‘smashed’.
- education, wrested as Marx decreed, from the middle class (private schools and VAT), and used as a vehicle for the state propagandising of children and youth at their most vulnerable age.
… and much more.
In short, I can reach no other conclusion. Under Labour, Britain is becoming a repressive state which is, incredibly, echoing the very characteristics of repression that any former resident of the Soviet Union or its satellite states would recognise today (and they do and tell us so)
And with every opportunity Keir Starmer has to rein that in, he instead doubles down. Month by month things get worse.
This is 2026. I can’t believe what I am seeing. Or what I’m saying. But, yes, it is going on. And only a majority government of either Tories or Reform (and I do have reservations about both) of a coalition of two can reverse this.
… or we are sunk
Has any action been taken against the police officers who handcuffed this boy and made him bleed to death in the street?
Who are they?
https://t.co/EkfCZcFNYD
🚨Former Delta Force Commander Pete Blaber Tells Americans the TRUTH About the WAR of Ukraine.
There's been fake (BUCHA) massacres, that were blamed on Russia.
They're so fake, they're a joke, and this is again why you see there's no Western press coverage you know, peoples who, who were supposedly shot by Russians laying in the mud with their hands tied behind their
back, but their hands are tied with pristine white ties.
And then when they ... when this French, brave French reporter, who was actually one of the only ones who the massacre site, he saw the Ukrainian, intelligence people pulling cadavers off out of frozen trucks, laying them on the ground, tying their hands together, and he's testified on that numerous times.
Same thing, his life's been threatened.
He's been, censored in France, but he's, another... There's, there's two of them.
Actually, two French reporters independent of each other same thing. And then the war itself, massive lies,
about the progress of the war, about the casualties.
You know, even President Trump was duped because his initial advisors to Ukraine were, were, you know, the,
the one guy he had was an ex-general. His daughter ran a, a NGO in Ukraine.
And so when he was in Ukraine, he was paying his daughter's NGO to take him around and provide security for him.
How can a guy whose family is making money from the war be taken seriously in trying to stop the war.
“We should be concerned about anything that undermines the 1st Amendment. There is a reason for the 1st Amendment. People came from countries where they could not speak freely - where saying certain things would get you thrown in prison.”
— Elon Musk
Kirk, who was shot, said six months ago that the conflict in Ukraine benefits the Ukrainian ruling class and the military-industrial complex.
He called Zelensky an “ungrateful, spoiled child.” The activist also emphasized that Crimea has always been Russian and that Ukraine will not be able to take it back.
#Iran kicks off new round of attacks against #Israel, with a massive wave of offensive & kamikaze drones launched towards strategic targets. IRGC spokesman warned, "This operation will be continuous, sustained, and will disrupt their balance."
🚨BREAKING: Iranian state television: The 19th wave of Operation "True Promise 3" has begun.
Numerous attack and suicide drones deployed toward key targets in Israel, the operation will be ongoing, seeking to overwhelm Israel's defense systems.
If you voted for Donald Trump thinking you were finally gonna get the full JFK files, the Epstein files, and that no new endless wars would start, you’re probably real salty right now.
You can call me Captain Sodium.
🇮🇷/🇮🇱 Sonol, a major Israeli fuel company, has contacted its commercial customers following #Iran|ian missile attacks that damaged the Bazan Company, leading to the shutdown of Haifa's oil refinery. Sonol announced it may reduce or suspend fuel supplies due to the situation.